Senior Bioinformatician

The University of Manchester is seeking a talented senior bioinformatician to lead the bioinformatics team within the Next Generation Phenotyping and Diagnostics (NGPD) theme of the Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. The aim of this National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded project is to accelerate the adoption of high throughput diagnostic techniques through improving our understanding of disease complexity and multimorbidity in the context of high deprivation, social and ethnic diversity. At the core of the NGPD theme we will create a bioinformatics team, comprising 2 bioinformaticians and 2 software developers, which you will lead, under the supervision of Prof David Wedge. Collectively, your team will have expertise in the analysis of multilevel omic and imaging data; data integration and machine learning; risk prediction. This expertise will be used to study key disease areas including fibrosis, eye disease and cancer.
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Blended working arrangements may be considered.

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Name: Professor David Wedge

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**Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.